Michael Robinson: Victory over the Sun
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Michael Robinson: Victory over the Sun
Michael Robinson, Victory over the Sun

Michael Robinson, Victory over the Sun

It having rained a lot so far this month is our (fairly flimsy) excuse for posting Michael Robinson’s majestic Victory Over the Sun, a meditation on irony, progress and loss which, among other things, asks viewers to take Guns ‘n’ Roses absurdly overblown ballad November Rain seriously. Snippets from a bunch more of Robinson’s films are viewable on his website, but this full length short arrives via the similarly worth-checking-out Triple Canopy.

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